For The Weekend: Twelve

Big Data versus Humanity. Brewster Kahle wrote this in February but it has become even more relevant with each passing day. We shouldn’t forget those who built the frameworks of our digital world, not when they’re still talking about it today.

Frustrations at the IndyWeb conference. Dori Smith thinks those involved with the IndieWeb ought to reach out to Tumblr users in particular, and it makes perfect sense. Up until the past few years Tumblr remained unique within the silos as it continued to embrace blogs, RSS, and the like.

Micro.blog milestone: first year open to the public. Manton Reece has maintained and continuously improved the various aspects of the platform, whilst the community has proven that you do not need to have your hand held by a closed, hostile system to have an online life.

Algorithms Don’t See. Speaking of the Micro.blog community, Patrick Rhone is a frequent contributor with gems such as this piece in which he succinctly underlines why an inhuman approach to curating the web is simply not good enough.

The web in 2018 (original link) is a brilliant gif shared by Andy Bell. Website UX being sacrificed for cheap ad rates and lazy marketing has clearly been no solution at all to the challenges of the modern web.

A Small Hymn in Praise of My Body. Annie Mueller is another member of the Micro.blog community, and yet another person whose words are worthy of reading by anybody. This post has taken residence in my mind and I don’t think it’ll be going anywhere for some time yet.

Why write about lunch? Why yes, Brent Simmons is on Micro.blog. Huh, funny that! In this short posts he hits a number of great points in answering the stated question.

The True Size is an excellent web app to help you keep check of your mental model of the world, made by James Talmage and Damon Maneice who were in turn inspired by The West Wing which in itself is often a very good thing indeed.

Indieseek Directory. Speaking of Brad, he is building a directory of his own to which you can link or even add its search to your site. Efforts like this are how we rebuild the web and move it away from the centralised, silo behemoths.

MetPublications is the archive created by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, with which you can access decades worth of publications on art history for free.